In Plane Sight – Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector

The report, “In Plane Sight: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector“, produced by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies as part of the USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) Partnership, revealed the principal role airlines play in the endangered wildlife black market:

“The air industry in particular presents an efficient option for traffickers looking for a way to move live animals or wildlife products quickly. Chances that trafficking attempts will be identified are reliably low; even in the United States, a program to discreetly test airports’ enforcement success rates found that screeners failed to identify banned material 95% of the time”